Seminars

Examples of seminars given by Members of Chambers:

ADR / Mediation / Expert Determination

Arbitration

• Challenging/Setting Aside an Arbitration Award
  
• What Can go Wrong in Arbitration: Hussmann - a Case Study
  
• Management and Control of an Arbitration
  
• Arbitration: As a Dispute Resolution Option
  
• Arbitration Issues in Cross Border Disputes
  
• Arbitration in the Energy Field and the Energy Charter Treaty
  
• Precedent in International Arbitration
  
• The Role and Duties of Expert Witnesses in Arbitration

• Mediation of Insurance Cases
  
• Mediation in the Financial Services Sector
  
• Mediation in Shipping Disputes
  
• Pitfalls in Mediation: the do's and do nots
  
• Enforceability of Mediation Clauses

• Challenging an Expert Determination
  
• Drafting an Expert Determination Clause
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Banking & Financial Services

• Banker's Liability for Advice


• Bankers and Undue Influence


• Breach of Confidence


• Cheques


• Claims for Interest after Sempra v IRC
  
• Current Issues in Retail Banking


• Documentary Credits/Performance Bonds


• FSA Investigations/Enforcement


• Hedge Funds: the Current State of Play and Looking Over the Horizon
  
• Market Abuse/Regulator's Enquiries


• Money Laundering/Tipping Off


• Risks and Liabilities Arising from Banker's References


• UK Anti-money Laundering Regime

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Entertainment & Media

• Misuse of Confidential Information


• Rights of Privacy and the Media


• Contractual Issues for Music Lawyers


• Liability of Company Directors for Copyright Infringement after MCA v Charly

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Commercial Fraud

• The Effective Use of Interim Remedies in Fraud and Tracing Claims


• Pleading Fraud After the House of Lords Decision in Medcalf v Mardell


• Liability of Employees for Fraudulent Misstatements after Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan National Shipping Corporation
• Recent Cases on Piercing the Corporate Veil


• Constructive Trusts after Twinsectra


• Recent Cases on Commercial Fraud
  
• Recent Developments in International Fraud


• The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the UK Anti-money Laundering Regime
  
• Points to Watch out for in Commercial Fraud Claims


• The Privilege Against Self-incrimination
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Information Technology

• IT disputes and How to Avoid Them


• Mediation of IT disputes
  
• Time Obligations in IT Contracts
  
• Termination of IT Projects
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Insolvency / Company

• Directors' Disqualification
• Economic Torts after OBG
  
• Fixed and Floating Charges
  
• Lehman Brothers International Europe: from a Creditor's Perspective
  
• Principles of Set-off Under Insolvency Law
  
• Restraint and Confiscation Orders and the New ARA
• Shareholder Disputes and Unfair Prejudice Petitions under s.459
CA 1985

• The Duties of Company Directors
  
• The Enterprise Act 2002
• Transactions at an Undervalue and Preferences


• Wrongful Trading Under s. 214 IA 1986
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Insurance / Professional Negligence

• Claims Against Barristers
  
• Follow the Settlement
  
• Identifying Contracts of Insurance: The Common Law & FSA Perimeter Guidance Instrument 2005 (FSA 2005/31), Chapter 6
  
• Liability of Investment Managers
  
• Loss of a Chance
  
• Mitigation Clauses in Insurance Contracts
  
• Negligent Directors: Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and Relief from Liability
  
• Professional Indemnity Insurance: lessons from Enterprise Oil
  
• SAAMCO 10 Years on: Causation and Scope of Duty in Professional Negligence Cases
  
• Recent Developments in the Law relating to Contribution
  
• Underwriting Agents who Exceed their Authority
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General Commercial Litigation

• Cost Orders Against Non-Parties
  
• Case Management - the Difficult Role of the Court of Appeal
  
• Electronic Disclosure and the CPR
  
• Everything You Need to Know about the Commercial Agents Regulations
  
• Pre-action Disclosure and Norwich Pharcamal relief
  
• The Construction of Contracts - Recent Cases
• Three Rivers - Obtaining Documents from Third Parties'
  
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